Good News Part 5. For science, positivity, puffins and daffodils. For anyone who isn't coping with gloom and doom.All aboard Boaty McBoatface!

[FuzzyPuffling]

New thread for the positive crew. Oldies, lurkers and newbies all welcome. Keep the science and positivity coming.

Haha let's just all get over it 😂

I’m glad everyone is friends again.

I still great to be able to see the figures drop so clearly in this lockdown. I think there will suddenly be a point where the effect of the vaccinations kicks in, combined with the effect of lockdown, and the cases, mortality and hospitalisation figures will drop dramatically. Can’t wait for that to happen

@FuzzyPuffling

Still rocketing upwards alarmingly in Cornwall. Almost the same as at our highest peak. We're feeling very overlooked here. HELP! Send Marzipan.

Oh dear

Just try to think of it as that ripple effect. Cornwall is one of the last to feel it but that is good because the wave of cases is smaller

Definitely send for Marzipan with a saddle bag of vaccine

The table of councils on the www.covidmessenger.com homepage is updated with today's data release.

The new barometer on the homepage is holding firm!

I was a bit worried yesterday was an anomaly and the number of "green" councils would fall today.

But thankfully I needn't have worried!

How have I only found this thread now! Just what I needed.

Just having a blether with the husband who it turns out is a fucking doom muppet

I just need a bit of 'there there everything's gonna be ok' but he's too bloody logical and realistic.

There is a reason for the rapid speed of my London boroughs vaccination scheme.

We have only just dropped down into the nine hundreds and something cases a day. Previously we have been well over a thousand.

Yes they are saying group 4 will get a letter soon. However I fear that is because we have a very high BAME population in this borough. It you look at the news the black and Asian communities are being bombarded with false new and have a lot of reluctance to have the vaccine. I worry that the bad take up in the BAME elderly is the reason we are moving fast.

So what I am saying is everyone and every where has their issues. We just have to celebrate the good stuff when we can.

@IncludeWomenInTheSequel

Haha let's just all get over it 😂

Ha ha .... I didn't read the threads properly the div I am !!!!!

Anyway I have made plans to just get pissed most of the summer this year 🤔😜

@littleowl1

The table of councils on the www.covidmessenger.com homepage is updated with today's data release.

The new barometer on the homepage is holding firm!

I was a bit worried yesterday was an anomaly and the number of "green" councils would fall today.

But thankfully I needn't have worried!

I was worried you wasted all that work putting it on and it would just go totally green the next day.

Ok I wasn't worried at all. I was hoping Still by next week fingers crossed

@IncludeWomenInTheSequel

Just having a blether with the husband who it turns out is a fucking doom muppet

I just need a bit of 'there there everything's gonna be ok' but he's too bloody logical and realistic.

Terrible when they are like that.

We will send Marzipan for you to stroke instead.

Thank you. He is good at nuzzles.

Could Marzipan bring extra vaccine and also some marzipan please? I bloody love marzipan.

Yay Bristol has now joined the green ranks

When I try to open the covid messenger on my phone I just get this. Does anyone know why?

littelowl!, your numbers vary massively from Zoes? (I'm not carping, just wondering)

Your chart has Cornwall at 299 cases per 100,000, Zoe says 630.
Zoe says we're 327 cases up on last week's total, now at the second highest ever.

I'm genuinely wondering how the difference in these numbers comes about. (And which ones shall I look at?)

@IncludeWomenInTheSequel

Just having a blether with the husband who it turns out is a fucking doom muppet

I just need a bit of 'there there everything's gonna be ok' but he's too bloody logical and realistic.

The logical and realistic outlook right now is that everything is going get a lot better fairly soon, though. Anyone predicting that cases will suddenly start going up again or that vaccines will inexplicably stop working is not thinking of the most likely scenario.

Zoe is predicting actual cases rather than just the ones that test positive - could that be it?

FuzzyPuffling - government cases thingy has Cornwall and Isles of Scilly on a downward trend (on the map). coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/interactive-map

7.5% of the U.K. adult population have now had their first dose of the vaccine. From the coronavirus good news Twitter account.

Zoe has it massively up though. 327 up on last week, current active cases 3521. (highest level was 3,700 a few days ago)

I don't get how different measuring tools can have such extremely different results. I'd expect them to be within spitting distance of each other.

(Anecdotally, it's pretty rampant!)

Miniature animals, daffodils and magnolias - that and the great Covid news on this thread keeps me sane! Thank you!

Oh, I don't take much notice of the local Zoe numbers. Ours can have 5 figures one days and drop to 6000 the next. Although it hasn't been lower than 5000 since September, I think.

Just sharing this because it's packed full of positive stats. And it was top of the bbc news page. Even the main stories are starting to be positive 😃

Covid-19: England delivering 140 jabs a minute, says NHS chief executive www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55694967

7.5%

50% of the over 80s! 😃